"Morph", where does the term come from?
My initial introduction to this term came from science fiction where it was more commonly used as a verb. But, I am intrigued why it is used in captive herpetology.
Where did the use begin? Why "morph" and not "mutation"?
Aren't morphs mutations?
Is it short for a longer word?
From Webster's New World College: -morphic combining form forming adjectives having a (specified) form or shape [idiomorphic].?
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